Usually online education can be pretty lonely and boring.
But it was not the case in here. Lively online and social media communities
were formed in Slack and Facebook and the Slack channels were overflowing with
informative and interesting discussions throughout the day. Friendly community
managers came up with creative ways to keep the community engaged.
I knew I just didn’t have the luxury of spending hours
online to add my contribution. I was busy with a demanding toddler and my
family was to migrate in July, right in the middle of the course duration
(June-August). I had to come up with a
way to finish up the coursework and add value within the first few weeks. Then
came the Eureka moment, since I had no choice but finish the course in first
few weeks and also since I have a terrible memory why don’t I make course notes
and share it with everyone? There was no material in written form anyway and
the course was mainly in the video/quiz form which made it even more
worthwhile.
After 2 weeks I had neatly compiled the course content into
a pdf file and shared it. It was an instant hit and I was happy to get some
lovely feedback. There were permission requests to translate the note into
several other languages as well.
Find it here!
Find it here!
Next two months were full of chaos with the migration and by August we were finally settled in Sydney, Australia. As anticipated I couldn’t even login to Slack or course forums.
Three days back I got the email congratulating me on being selected to the Data Science NanoDegree. The plan had worked.